Posted on 10/08/2014 8:05:49 AM PDT by redreno
FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (WTVD) -- The parents of a Wake County high school student are outraged that police pepper-sprayed him inside their home after a neighbor mistook him for an intruder.
It happened Monday afternoon on England Avenue in Fuquay-Varina.
Ricky and Stacy Tyler have fostered 18-year-old DeShawn Currie for about a year. The Tylers, their three young children and DeShawn moved to Fuquay-Varina in July. They said while they're still getting to know their neighbors, it's hurtful someone would assume DeShawn was a burglar just for going about his normal routine of walking home after school.
"He's my baby boy just as much as my other three children are," said Stacy.
She left the side door to their home unlocked Monday for DeShawn, who was coming home early from school.
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Diversity training for the neighbor.
DeShawn was “Blind Sided”.
Screw that! The kid lived there. He had every right to be there. The police thugs were the intruders. I would have questioned the cops had it been me.
Poor kid. If I’m reading this right, the family is white and he is a black foster child. Without being able to quickly whip out a driver’s license, he’s at the tender mercies of adrenalin-high cops.
Running these kinds of no-brainer stories as "news" just discourages diligence among neighbors, not to mention foster Mom's nonsense about hurtfulness and her "boy" feeling loved, and all that BS.
At least they didn't kill him, and then the dog. People are way too ready to be offended, demanding of apologies.
You can't have affirmative action, deliberative actions meant to be "welcoming," and at the same time unconscious of race.
Adrenalin? Yeah, that's the ticket.
You’re an @ss, and with your attitude, you’ll soon be a statistic.
If he had complied with their order to put his hands on the door they would have extracted it for him, read the home address thereon and then asked him to turn around and face them to resolve the issue.
But he chose a different tactic and got pepper sprayed for his efforts.
Reasonable.
Police show up, you know, to investigate a call of a burglary in progress, to protect the homeowners property.
Meet the kid and he is less than helpful when challenged. Instead of acting like a man and saying, yeah, I live here and this is my ID to prove it and call the owners, he was argumentative and this is not the way to convey useful information to help the situation.
Okay, fine, kid lives there but given the circumstance (he's black the family is white), the officers acted reasonably the punk did not.
Or, I guess we can all now do nothing when we see black punks enter any home anywhere at any time, because to do otherwise would be racist.
Their argument is with their neighbor not police.
My knee jerk is usually to blame the cops but read the story. Black guy with no key is in the house, all family photos are white people, and the neighbor did not recognize him thus the call to the cops. Reading between the lines of Deshawn’s statement to the press the cops did first engage him verbally (asked why no photos of him). If the cops ever find a black guy in my house with no key I certainly hope they wouldn’t just leave if he tells them it’s his house.
The only real question here is the pepper spray. Picture in the article shows this is a big guy. Was he actually belligerent or was this a case of the cops not feeling “respsected.” In my mind this may be a case where the bad behavior of many cops has removed the benefit of the doubt for any cop dealing with a hard situation.
Certainly adrenalin. For me to suggest any more puts me into the anti-cop crowd. I can’t go so far as to simply declare that these guys must have been on steroids.
Really? So your saying that the police have every right to come into your home and question your right to be there? You are also saying that you give up the right to question why the police are in your home. That is complete bullshyte. The kid was in his home minding his own business and got harassed and pepper sprayed.
Here gang is an unabashed boot licker. He thinks groveling when the COPs yell jump is all that we need understand. He’s just another useful drone unaware that even when you do everything right theres no guarantee you’ll make it out alive. He also has no concept of personal liberties and a limited govt. Im sure he’s proud to call himself a statist.
I just can’t tell you how wrong you are. You are so blinded by your ignorance, immaturity and lack of common sense.
During the year that the foster man (he is 18) had been with the family, one might ask whether the parents introduced him to the neighbors, or whether they included him in family pictures displayed the house.
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